Thanks for the suggestions everyone, I also heard mixed things about Yahoo groups elsewhere and think we can safely eliminate that option. (If I understand correctly, you even need a yahoo ID to be able to log in to them, which is kind of a dealbreaker).
The biggest problem with something like Redmine would be email support. Not sure how configurable their email support is, but just operating an SMTP server is no walk in the park, so I'd rather not have to... Vanilla forums look great, but their email support (not built-in but through availeble plugins) seems pretty minimalistic (no daily digest features etc.) and there's the same story with the SMTP server again. We'll keep on looking :) - Dirk On Nov 17, 5:00 pm, Marijn <marijn.huizendv...@gmail.com> wrote: > I take it you already have a bugtracker but Redmine provides a really > great forum, wiki, bugtracker and files management all in one. > > On Nov 13, 8:21 am, Rob Rye <rowen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I have a fair bit of experience moderating groups on Yahoo! Groups (I > > inherited all these groups from other moderators and am stuck with them as > > the communities that use them are unwilling to contemplate migrating to > > anything better). I find the spam recognition features capricious. The file > > management set up is annoying as well. I definitely would not recommend it > > for anything other than a social group that just wants to have a convenient > > group email system - and doesn't mind having the occasional member email > > labeled as spam for no good reason at all. > > > Rob > > On Nov 12, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Rob Lewis wrote: > > > > Not really an expert on these things, but what about Yahoo? Used it a > > > few years ago and it seemed pretty good. > > > > On Nov 12, 5:43 am, Dirk Stoop <d...@madebysofa.com> wrote: > > >> Hi All, > > > >> Because Google Groups is slowly dropping features – and it wasn't that > > >> great to begin with – we'd like to eventually find a better place to > > >> host this mailing list / online forum. > > > >> I'd like to ask all of you for suggestions about where to go. > > > >> From my point of view (the company's and the moderator's) we'd need at > > >> least the following features: > > > >> - Moderation for posts from new members (there's quite a bit of spam > > >> that would reach the group without this) > > >> - Ways to both view and respond to discussions on the web, as well as > > >> through email > > >> - Ability for members to upload files > > > >> Beyond this it doesn't have to be super powerful, as long as it's easy > > >> for people to join, read and write to it, I think we've met our goals. > > > >> We want this to be a place where people can talk about the app and > > >> related topics, help eachother and exchange experiences. Something > > >> like getsatisfaction.com (emphasis on feature requests, and voting) or > > >> tenderapp.com (emphasis on support tickets, not open discussion) would > > >> definitely not fit the bill. > > > >> Any feedback, either suggestions for a good place or piece of software > > >> to run this on, or about requirements I didn't mention but you think > > >> should be part of the evaluation, is very welcome. > > > >> Thanks! > > >> - Dirk > > > >> the Versions team > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "Versions" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to versi...@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > versions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit this group > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/versions?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Versions" group. To post to this group, send email to versi...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to versions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/versions?hl=en.
